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Throwback Friday #98 ‘Yellow Door’ (2015)
Another ominous manifestation of light and energy arrives without warning in the old house in the dead of night… Read more
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Film: Vertigogo (2022)
Back when I was teaching an undergraduate course, one of my yearly highlights was a screening for students of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on the big screen. There are many showier reasons for enjoying this film,… Read more
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The Kick-About #49 ‘Saul Bass’
From the lovely free-wheeling associations of our last Kick-About together, to the pared-down, typographic compositions of graphic designer and film-maker, Saul Bass, welcome to another showcase of new works made in a short time. Read more
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Throwback Friday #98 Black-Headed Gulls (2016)
As perfectly arranged as those flying ceramic ducks fastened in place to sitting room walls, a foursome of black-headed gulls take-wing on their way out to sea. Read more
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MFT #14 Wake In Fright (1971)
Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film Wake In Fright is one of my favourite things. Here’s why. Read more
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After Baldwin #3 (2022)
A few final scraps from The Kick-About #48; I tried starting from a different drawing of a different house plant – a fishbone cactus – but didn’t enjoy these outcomes as fulsomely. Still, they got… Read more
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Throwback Friday #97 Black-Headed Gull (2016)
Taken one damp, misty morning on the beach; an instance where the camera’s struggle to arrest the detail of a moving subject produces a more apposite expression of the subject. Read more
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After Baldwin #2 (2022)
A few more Louise Baldwin-inspired abstracts produced for The Kick-About #48 – variations on the same original sketch of one of those elegant Flying Saucer Plants. Not much guiding these, just trying to generate as… Read more
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After Baldwin #1 (2022)
What a joyful Kick-About prompt this was (and a welcome palate cleanser after the severed heads of recent days). Textile artist Louise Baldwin’s work gave me permission to draw quickly and instinctively, and embrace colour… Read more
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The Kick-About #48 ‘Blown In’
If the last Kick-About got us circling around ideas of different pieces and the ties that bind them, this week’s showcase, inspired by the free-associating permissions of Lousie Baldwin’s contemporary textiles, is an offering no… Read more
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